Coconut Unlimited

Coconut Unlimited is the 2010 debut novel of Nikesh Shukla. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award in the same year. The novel focuses on the lives of three friends, Amit, Anand and Nishant. The friends are in a difficult position, their peers think that they do not fit in with them because of their skin colour whereas their community sees them as rich and over privileged and not representative of the reality for Asian people. Desperate to ‘keep it real’ the trio form a hip-hop band Coconut Unlimited. The only problem is, they can’t rap…

Documenting the trials and tribulations of growing up, this novel documents the teenage dream of finding super stardom, success and that ever elusive status of cool…